How do I measure my cooked, rice?

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katherineguerra780
katherineguerra780 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition

hi all.

I wanted to ask how to measure my cooked rice. I noticed that the nutrition facts are there, but I believe it’s for the uncooked rice, so I never know how to measure it when it is cooked.

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  • lesdarts180
    lesdarts180 Posts: 3,449 Member

    You can search the database for rice, cooked.

    Personally I always weigh my rice raw, as sold, as cooked rice absorbs a lot of water and cooking methods can vary - especially if say, you add vegetables or stock while cooking.

    The pack of easy cook brown rice in front of me now has both raw and cooked nutrition information:

    100 g as sold (ie raw) is 393 calories

    A portion of 75 g raw rice, cooked as per instructions, would apparently weigh 180 g and the calories are said to be 304 calories.

    These numbers don't quite add up but close enough given the inherent variability of calorie values.

    If you are eating out you will just have to do your best estimating the quantity,

    Good luck! Weighing, measuring, estimating gets easier with practice

  • nsk1951
    nsk1951 Posts: 1,346 Member

    I agree to search for dry or cooked rice in the data base is a good idea.

    I googled "how to measure cooked rice" and got a lot of hits.

    As for me a lot of the grains I cook with tell me on their packaging that 1/4 cup dry is a serving including rice. Generally, I cook 1 cup of dry rice in 1.5 cups of water and end up with about 3 cups of cooked rice … which I try to divide into quarters to make 4 servings. That means it's about 3/4 cup of cooked rice if I did get 3 cups out of the it all.

    When I enter that into MFP, I tend to look for the dry weight at 1/4 cup and say good enough!

    To be more exact, weigh the dry rice on a kitchen scale before you cook it and then again after it's done. That way you can figure out how many grams of it you can have for the portion size you determine will be your serving. Good luck.

  • MarjMJMM
    MarjMJMM Posts: 18 Member

    Like with many things, weighing using kitchen scales before cooking the rice is probably most helpful. 1/4 cup uncooked basmati is about 50g, and by the way I cook it, this scales up after boiling (IIRC) to about 150g. If I am making for two and decide to make him indoors a double portion, I'd weigh the total cooked rice and take 1/3 for myself.

    As others said, look up 'uncooked rice' or 'rice, raw' in the MFP database and you should get several hits. I then check them to see if the have the measures I want (usually grams) and choose one that looks like the nutritional info on the packet of rice I have from the supermarket.

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